Whitesboro Grange

Formerly a school house, the grange provides a social gathering place on the Navarro Ridge near Albion.

Mendocino Village Water Tower

In the 1960s, an artist who settled in the village established a coin-operated laundry on the ground level of this water tower building. I remember going there with my mom, and sitting in the sheltered garden behind it, admiring the mounds of nasturtiums.

Dusting Off the Sidewalk in Mendocino

Veil of Blossoms in Mendocino Village

Country Road Farm Stand

Patient and Obedient

Door No More

Still a Way In

Golden West

Astral Projections

First, for comparison, what the shadows from the oak boughs look like against my shed wall just before the eclipse began. Then, as the moon obscured the sun's rays, the tiny gaps between the leaves functioned more vividly as thousands of pinhole lenses, safely showing the progress of the event, and casting images of countless crescent suns.

Vacant Storefront

Yellow

Rainbow Colors

The Barn Ruin of Highway 20

 

This collapsing barn has been photographed hundreds, if not thousands, of times, situated as it is along Highway 20 a few miles west of Willits. Turnouts on both sides of the road make it an easy stop, but wire fencing prevents honorable visitors from venturing too close. I suspect it was a photographer who planted those daffodils.

Ridgewood Ranch, Home of Seabiscuit

The ranch where the champion racehorse Seabiscuit retired got renewed attention with the publication of Laura Hillenbrand's book nearly a decade ago. Several historic structures have been preserved, including the stallion barn where Seabiscuit was housed. There is amateur film footage of the artist Tex Wheeler, showing him at work on the original plaster sculpture of Seabiscuit that would be the first step in the process of making several bronzes cast from it. One of those statues is at the ranch.

The herd of white fallow deer are descendants of the original animals purchased in 1949 by Charles Howard from William Hearst, a friend who also had such deer at San Simeon. (R.M. Jurek, 1970, Humboldt State College)

Overhead Light

Sun House

Behind the Sun House, you can find the Grace Carpenter Hudson museum, housing many of the artists paintings as well as family and ethnographic artifacts. All worth stopping for if you pass through Ukiah.

A Good Sign

A lovely looking development, a "Used & Rare BOOKS" and antiques shop is preparing to open on Main Street.

Print Shop Back Door

At the Hospital

Waiting…

 Waiting…

Waiting for the loved one's return from repair.